In this blog post by Melissa Willets, she assures the reader that it is okay to be a mom that takes shortcuts. Rather than preparing organic snacks for your children, go ahead and make chicken nuggets. It’s okay to let them watch a movie in order to get some things done around the house. Boxed cereal is just as good as a homemade breakfast. The important thing is to hug your children, listen to them, and care. If you do that, you’re a great mom.

Key Takeaways:

• And if competing with other moms to be the best at everything, from school lunch preparation to fishtail braiding, doesn’t provide purpose in your life, mentally flog yourself no longer.
• Join me in embracing the phone-it-in mothering style, which takes the pressure off of achieving parenting glory, and frees up more time for you to pay attention to what really matters: loving the crap out of your kids.
• Phoning in some aspects of motherhood is not an indication that you are somehow inferior to the parents who built self-sufficient robots with their kids for the science fair.

“Join me in embracing the phone-it-in mothering style, which takes the pressure off of achieving parenting glory, and frees up more time for you to pay attention to what really matters loving the crap out of your kids.”

https://blogs.babycenter.com/mom_stories/9-signs-youre-a-phone-it-in-mom/